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Therfore is ye kingdome of heven lykened vnto a certayne kynge which wolde take a countis of his servauntis.
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And when he had begone to recken one was broughte vnto him whiche ought him ten thousande talentis:
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whome be cause he had nought to paye his master commaunded him to be solde and his wyfe and his chyldren and all that he had and payment to be made.
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The servaunt fell doune and besought him sayinge: Sir geve me respyte and I wyll paye it every whit.
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Then had the Lorde pytie on that servaunt and lowsed him and forgave him the det.
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And ye sayde servaut wet oute and founde one of his felowes which ought him an hundred pence and leyed hondes on him and toke him by the throote sayinge: paye me yt thou owest.
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And his felowe fell doune and besought him sayinge: have pacience with me and I wyll paye the all.
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And he wolde not but went and cast him into preson tyll he shulde paye the det.
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When his other felowes sawe what was done they were very sory and came and tolde vnto their lorde all yt had happened.
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Then his lorde called him and sayde vnto him. O evyll servaut I forgave the all that det because thou prayedst me: was it not mete also yt thou
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shuldest have had copassion on thy felow even as I had pitie on ye?